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British. House. Gryffindor. Born. 31 July 1980. Harry James Potter is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. The plot of the seven-book series chronicles seven years in the life of the orphan Harry, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard. He attends Hogwarts, a school of magic, where he ...
May 22, 2020 · This is the true birthplace of Harry Potter, if you define ‘birthplace’ as the spot where I put pen to paper for the first time.* I was renting a room in a flat over what was then a sports shop.
- ROWLING AND HARRY SHARE A BIRTHDAY. They both blow out candles on July 31 (happy birthday, JKR!). And that’s not the only influence Rowling had on her characters: She’s said that Hermione is a bit like her when she was younger, and her favorite animal is an otter—which is, of course, Hermione’s patronus.
- SHE INVENTED THE NAMES OF THE HOGWARTS HOUSES ON THE BACK OF A BARF BAG. In 2000, Scholastic gave schoolchildren across the U.S. the opportunity to ask Rowling questions about Harry Potter.
- EARLY ON, ROWLING WROTE A SKETCH OF THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE FINAL BOOK. Rowling calls the idea that she had the first chapter of Deathly Hallows written and locked away in the safe “rubbish.”
- THE DEMENTORS ARE BASED ON ROWLING’S STRUGGLE WITH DEPRESSION AFTER HER MOTHER’S DEATH. Rowling’s mother, who had multiple sclerosis, died in 1990, after which Rowling suffered a period of depression.
May 22, 2020 · Published Friday, May 22, 2020 9:49AM EDT. British author J.K. Rowling poses for the photographers during photo call to unveil her new book on Sept. 27, 2012. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP) For years ...
May 22, 2020 · This is the true birthplace of Harry Potter, if you define 'birthplace' as the spot where I put pen to paper for the first time.* ... “I sometimes hear Hogwarts was based on one or other of ...
Harry James[57] Potter (b. 31 July 1980)[1] was an English half-blood[2] wizard, and one of the most famous wizards of modern times. The only child and son of James and Lily Potter (née Evans), Harry's birth was overshadowed by a prophecy, naming either himself or Neville Longbottom as the one with the power to vanquish his arch-enemy, Lord Voldemort, one of the most powerful and feared Dark ...
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was published on 8 July 2000 at the same time by Bloomsbury and Scholastic. [70] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the longest book in the series, at 766 pages in the UK version and 870 pages in the US version. [71] It was published worldwide in English on 21 June 2003. [72]
